EGGS FOR HATCHING.Eggs intended for hatching should be removed as soon as laid, and placed in bran in a dry, cool place.

The finest wheat flour contains more starch than the coarser; the bran of wheat is proportionably richer in gluten.

A brace of half-bred dogs, named Percy and Douglas, the property of Mr. Scrope, kept a stag at bay from Saturday night to Monday morning; and the pure bred Bran by himself pulled down two unwounded stags, one carrying ten and the other eleven tines.

Mr. D and the servants eat bread made with three-parts bran to one of flour.

While he was out buying hemp, his wife exchanged the pot of bran for some scouring sand with a sandman in the street.

This afforded an excuse for the master's borrowing a horse and sleigh of somebody, and claiming the privilege of taking Miss Ellen home, while her father returned with only Aunt Sally and a great bag of bran from the millcompanions about equally interesting.

On the hucksters' stands they keep alive a long time, as it were chewing their own cud, all that is done for them being to supply a few laurel leaves and scatter a little bran over them: so a cook never knows whether he is cooking them alive or dead.

The afternoon was rainy, in spite of which I drove to Busson Hill, and had a talk with Bran about the vile caterpillar blights on the wild plum trees, and asked him if it would not be possible to get some sweet grafts from Mr. C for some of the wild fruit trees, of which there are such quantities.

To make the bran water, boil 1 measure of bran with 4 measures of water for not less than 30 minutes.

"Brother Rae, in religion you have to eat the bran along with the flour.

The principal curiosity in the environs of Dunkeld is the Cascade of the Bran at Ossian's Hall, about a mile distant.

To-day he placed the tallow and bran before Kazan, and the smile in his face gave way to a look of perplexity.